The value of making young people stupid, subject to an educational deficit has enormous currency in a society in which existing relations of power ar….

Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of t….

The rise of the punishing state and the governing-through-crime youth complex throughout American society suggests the need for a politics that not o….

Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that pro….

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable..

Where neoliberalism thrives is in having done something that we haven't seen before. There is a merging of culture, politics, and power under neolibe….

What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is public. It is now considered ….

I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these singular modes of politics to broa….

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current..

Donald Trump's slogan: "Let's make America great again." And when I hear that, that seems to suggest there was a moment in the past when America real….

Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels of economic inequa….

I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant ….

The alternative position to whether torture is acceptable - that's not an alternative position, that's barbarism. The question here is not whether to….

Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in a ….

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being d….

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world..

Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of d….

Under the interlocking regimes of neoliberal power, violence appears so arbitrary and thoughtless that it lacks the need for any justification, let a….

The ideology of neoliberalism, with its privatization, its deregulation, its emphasis on consumption, its elimination of basically apparatuses that c….

In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted ….

As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives of fear and violence. ….